Dining with Squirrels

  Graphic memoir by Jeremie Dres chronicles his two week visit to Poland with a brother to learn more about their Jewish grandmother’s roots.  I like his drawing style.  And I learned some about the complexity of the attempts at Jewish renaissance in Poland.  Jeremie and his brother decline to go to Auschwitz and to […]

Kelly Corrigan wrote an excellent memoir of her experience of cancer and motherhood called The Middle Place.  Her ebullient father “Greenie” featured prominently in that book and now she’s spent an entire book examining her relationship with — and adult-won admiration of — her mother using the narrative of her post-college job nanny-ing for Milly […]

Ben put this on my nightstand about a year ago and has gently chided me for taking so long to pick it up.  I’m not a fan of sci-fi and I had a hard time following the action of the battles, but the narrative of a 7-year old Ender Wiggin taken from his family to […]